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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IV. Wherein soever upon thine examination thou findest thy self to have been faulty, 1thou must endeavour to amend and reform; for as the end of thy search is to discover what is amiss in thee, so the end of thy discovery is to amend and reform what hath been amiss in thee. And truly without this it will little avail thee to pray unto God for the removal of thine Affliction, for the Lord himself noteth continuance in sin to be the chief cause of the continuance of his hand of affliction upon his people. Isa. 9. 12, 13.
IV. Wherein soever upon thine examination thou findest thy self to have been faulty, 1thou must endeavour to amend and reform; for as the end of thy search is to discover what is amiss in thee, so the end of thy discovery is to amend and reform what hath been amiss in thee. And truely without this it will little avail thee to pray unto God for the removal of thine Affliction, for the Lord himself note•h continuance in sin to be the chief cause of the continuance of his hand of affliction upon his people. Isa. 9. 12, 13.
- 1Lam. 3. 40 Vera paenitentia est, quando sic paenitet hominem p••casse, ut •rimen non repetat. Bern.
V. Though Afflictions are special opportunities for Spiritual advantages, yet seeing they are not of themselves able to work any good in thee, without the special assistance of Gods Spirit working together with them; be earnest with God in Prayer for a sanctified use and improvement of them; that as he doth afflict thee, so he would teach and instruct thee by his holy Spirit, how to make a good use thereof, to the spiritual advantage of thine own soul. In all thy addresses unto God in Prayer, beg of him, that no affliction may pass away unsanctified; and pray more for the sanctification of them, than for their removal.